#harry potter obscurial

[nioumin-draw]

Obscured chapter 19 of @illisius

“Let go, Harry.”

Harry’s green eyes darted, gasping, locking on Snape’s. Somehow, he knew exactly what the man meant, but he shook his head, terrified. He couldn’t— he wasn’t supposed to— he couldn’t let go of the Otherness, of the Obscurus. The whole world was afraid of him, afraid of the monster that an Obscurial could become, and he was afraid of it too. He couldn’t be sure he wouldn’t hurt Snape, that he wouldn’t be caught in the crossfire, that he wouldn’t kill him, but it didn’t matter. Not to Snape.

Because Harry still had a chance to live.

And Snape was willing to risk everything, to take it.

He held the boy’s gaze, full of tears, “Let go, Harry — let go!”

New sketch based on a part of the chapter 19 of @illisius amazing fanfic Obscured on AO3 .....I choose this scene because it really touched me in the heart ❤️🥺

[demaparbat-hp]

Hermione wasn't sure of what to believe in anymore. She had been told stories of the black mist and its hunger. Legends of children who treated their magic like a parasite, until it became one. Tales of violence, darkness and death... But none of them looked like this.

No story was of a boy who couldn't talk, couldn't be touched. No legend was about broken childs with broken bones. No story talked about an old letter carried in shaking fingers.

Hermione needed to help him, before the Obscurus inside of Harry could take away what little soul he had left.

[seaskate]

What makes me angry with Dumbledore (part of it anyways, there's a lot of reasons to be mad at him) is that he saw first hand with his sister and nephew both what happens when a magical person feels the need to repress their magic. He knew, and he still ran the risk of Harry becoming an obscurial.

He wasn't ignorant, he knew that Harry would be unhappy with the Dursleys. Random Hufflepuffs in second year knew that Harry hated his muggle family, so he must have too. He knew about the cupboard under the stairs.

He knew all of this and yet he sent Harry there and kept sending him back.

[myths0f01d]

Would anyone be interested in reading a fic where Harry Potter is an obscurial?

Respectably some tags would be dark Harry, slytherin Harry. So forth.

Also would be drarry.

There would be wolfstar and Regulus living.

And obviously Dumbledore bashing.

And maybe Snape adopting Harry.

[liquidluckandstuff]

Adding lore in hindsight can be damning. Just look at Dumbledore.

This man had a sister who was an obsucrial and a nephew. His ex love interest knew they were powerful and went after one to fuck with Dumbledore.

So here you have this canonical GENIUS of a man who has a "love above all else" mentality, and you're telling me he doesn't know about obscurials enough to say "hey maybe putting this boy with people who hate magic is a bad idea."

See, because with all that stuff added afterwards, this genius man with family members who have suffered this offlicition, would have most CERTAINLY learned all he could about obscurials.

Because why would he want that to happen again? He's already had so much heartbreak over what damage they can do to the people he loves and being used as a pawn in a WAR.

So then sure, he might not have wanted Harry to know he was a wizard or who he was so it didn't make him a brat. But his relatives could have just said "hey you're a wizard" and left the rest a secret.

But then it leaves room for a far more upsetting truth, which was that Dumbledore knew what would happen otherwise. If Harry knew he was a wizard and with his muggles HATING magic, Dumbledore 100% knew what would have happened.

He knew what those muggles were going to do, and took steps to assure Harry wouldn't become an obsucrial.

Now its fucked up, and taking the stance "He HAD to put him there because it was the only safe place to keep him away from dark wizards" maybe Dumbledore didn't want to see Harry suffering being an obscurial on top of everything else.

It was a very fucked up, maybe, small act of kindness. Because either 1. Harry would have died from the obscurial before he got to hogwarts thus causing some MAJOR problems in the wizarding world.

2. Harry would have lived a little longer to learn what was wrong with him and this poor boy would have suffered so much more.

3. Harry would have lived a little longer, wanted revenge, and then you have an obscurial teaming up with a dark lord all over again

4. some forth other thing i haven't thought of yet.

Anyways, Dumbledore 100% knew what would have happened if Harry knew about his magic from all the back lore that was added. It changed his character and it makes his character less "just morally gray".

[leajoyrambles]

Writing ideas or something, pt. 2/?

DPxHP: Obscurials are a kind of Halfa.

The "lore" behind this is basically that a halfa is any ghost killed by ectoplasm (rather than something caused by portals). For Danny, that was electrified ectoplasm; for obscurials, magic is a stand-in for ectoplasm (or a form of it). They're a naturally unstable kind of ghost because their magic never stops killing them - like if a ghost was allergic to ectoplasm. You can't be allergic to yourself.

The story would have a "pay it forward" theme; newly-turned halfa Danny is helped by an obscurial, which introduces him to others who don't fit the dead/alive binary. This can pan out to him having a better idea of helping Dani (due to prior knowledge of destabilization in ghosts) and then Dani meeting obscurials in her travels and doing what she can to help them.

This could also pan out into a Ghost King ordeal and him going "there are a lot of things I could do with this kind of power, but let's start with helping the ghosts who have an actually time-sensitive problem."

[messrmoony71]

Honestly don't know why he wasn't one in canon, literally his life was the obscurial creation myth.

[sk1fanfiction]

ik my brainrot about this AU is chronic and terminal but hear me out

There's darkness in the distance

Harry's Obscurus/shadows (this one isn't even that much of a stretch)

Can you spare any mercy that you might find?

He's wearing the Harry glasses tell me this is not sopping wet emo attachment issues existential crisis makes potions in Myrtle's bathroom caps lock Harry

You and I drink the poison from the same vine

and the fucking flames. for his pyromaniac baby twin sis.

[lolathestoryteller]

I imagine Ariana was incredibly brave, but due to her early childhood trauma, never really got to prove this to herself. Instead, her magic turned against her in her refusal to ever use it again.

Or; The tragically overlooked story of a very underrated character.

Obscurial; is the person whose body is a host for the obscurus.

Obscurus; an unstable, uncontrollable dark force that bursts out and attacks, and then vanishes.

The obscurus is created as a manifestation of a young witch or wizard’s repressed energy (magic).

[fandrawsart]

Abwesenheit der Liebe, ein Obscurial wird geboren

For @biscaanii 's - The Eleventh Summer

[nioumin-draw]

For @illisius and her wonderful Severitus fanfiction : Obscured

With a Slytherin Obscurial Harry

I suggest you her fanfiction if you like hurt/ comfort !

The fanfic is on AO3 ,Still wip but updating each Friday 👀!!

I missed traditional drawing and makers

[dragoneyes618]

An Obscurial is a child who repressed his or her magic out of fear or persecution. The magic ends up poisoning the child from the inside; most Obscurials are dead by the age of ten.

Ariana Dumbledore was an Obscurial, due to being attacked and traumatized by three Muggle boys at the age of six. She refused to use her magic, and “it turned inward and drove her mad.”

 Albus Dumbledore noted that Obscurials could be cured by replacing their feelings of alienation with belonging. Credence Barebone, living with Mary Lou until his midtwenties - shockingly old for an Obscurial - never had that.

But what about Ariana? Ariana lived the rest of her life with her mother and her brothers who loved her and cared about her, in a wizarding house where nobody would have been shunned for using magic. Her attack was only a onetime incident, and there were years afterward for her to slowly heal. Did her feelings of alienation, of persecution, of fear and abnormality truly last all that time?

Maybe she was healing. Ariana lived to fourteen, after all, despite most Obscurials dying by ten. Maybe, given more time, her magic would have healed.

But then Gellert Grindelwald came over, and Aberforth confronted him and Albus, and Ariana came down the stairs to intervene in the following magical battle.

[theladyofspaceandtime]

𝐎𝐁𝐒𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐄𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐒

There is a world where Lily Evans didn't get to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with her childhood friend, Severus Snape. Instead, she is rejected for her magic and raised as a muggle, resulting in her turning into an Obscurial, and catching the attention of Lord Voldemort who has plans of his own for her.

➤ for my story: Obscurial Flower (Rewritten)

→→ also featured in: The Many Lives of Lily Evans

𝘈𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺𝘑𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘦. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵.

[disorganizedkitten]

Every child (or so William assumes, in the childlike way of assuming everyone has the same worldview and experiences he does) has wondered, at some point, if they were secretly adopted. Far fewer children wonder if they have a secret twin. When he’s older and has developed more of his wonderful little brain, he might try to explain why. Might wonder what it says about him and his parents that he suspected himself of not truly being their child. That’s less important, though. Because no matter how many times he asks his parents and uncles and aunts, he’s always reassured he is his parent’s true child. Perhaps that’s why William Potter was blindsided when he found out he wasn’t their only child.

[jlhynde-insanitybrilliance]

Elisabeth Finch telling Prof. McGonagall & Prof. Snape she’s not a witch:

Prof. Snape & Prof. McGonagall realizing she’s an obscurial:

[waterfallsilverberrywrites]

A character manipulation featuring Ollie Black, a Death Eater, and a central original character in my latest Harry Potter fanfiction work, "Veiled by Secrets," reveals close familial ties to Bellatrix and Sirius Lestrange. For those curious about my story, you can access the links below, cross-posted to both AO3 and FF.Net. This fanfiction is a work in progress, currently comprising approximately about 24-25 chapters, with 16 chapters already available for reading.